Shakespeare's Comic Olympics

Shakespeare's Comic Olympics PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 097390934X
Category : Canadian wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Shakespeare's Comic Olympics

Shakespeare's Comic Olympics PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 097390934X
Category : Canadian wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Shakespeare's NHL, National History League

Shakespeare's NHL, National History League PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 0973909358
Category : Hockey
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Shakespeare's Sports Canon

Shakespeare's Sports Canon PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 0973909307
Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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It took Shakespeare 25 years to create his legacy of 38 plays and five years for Coculuzzi and Toner to destroy it. Shakespeare?s Sports Canon transforms the Complete Works of William Shakespeare into a hilarious hybrid of improvised sporting play and spectacle theatre. Presented as live UCSN (Upstart Crow Sports Network) broadcasts, the Sports Canon includes:Shakespeare?s Rugby Wars: the Wars of the Roses tetralogy presented as a rugby match as Team Lancaster and Team York scrum it out for the British Crown and Rugby Supremacy;Shakespeare?s World Cup: the famous four Tragedies as Team Denmark, England, Scotland, and Italy kick out the blank verse for Top Tragic Cup;Shakespeare?s Gladiator Games: the Roman and Greek plays as a traditional Roman Ludi where Gladiators vie for the coveted wooden Rudis...and with it their freedom;Shakespeare?s Comic Olympics: all of the Comedies and Romances as Olympic events as Athletes strive to overcome comic feats of timing in their quest for Ring Finger Gold;Shakespeare?s NHL (National History League): the leftover Histories as a tribute to Canadian street hockey and homage to the Original Six as hockey's Historical Heroes faceoff for Lord Stanley's impressive Cup.

Shakespeare's Gladiator Games

Shakespeare's Gladiator Games PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 0973909331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Shakespeare's World Cup

Shakespeare's World Cup PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 0973909323
Category : World Cup (Soccer)
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Shakespeare's Rugby Wars

Shakespeare's Rugby Wars PDF Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
ISBN: 0973909315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Shakespeare--made in Canada

Shakespeare--made in Canada PDF Author: Judith Nasby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre's exhibition explores contemporary Canadian adaptations in theatre, pop media, and visual arts in a demonstration of the Shakespeare effect in Canadian culture. It brings together for the first time hundreds of rare artifacts, including the Canadian-owned Sanders portrait, contemporary Canadian theatre designs, Shakespeare in French Canada, contemporary Aboriginal adaptations of Shakespeare, new portraiture, an innovative learning commons for youth, as well as new and archival material from the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project, the L. W. Conolly Theatre Archives (University of Guelph), and the Stratford Festival of Canada.

Proceedings

Proceedings PDF Author: North American Society for Sport History
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Not Shakespeare

Not Shakespeare PDF Author: Richard W. Schoch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521800150
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Burlesque has been a powerful and enduring weapon in the critique of 'legitimate' Shakespearean culture by a seemingly 'illegitimate' popular culture. This was true most of all in the nineteenth century. From Hamlet Travestie (1810) to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1891), Shakespeare burlesques were a vibrant, yet controversial form of popular performance: vibrant because of their exuberant humour; controversial because they imperilled Shakespeare's iconic status. Richard Schoch, in this study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques, explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly 'not Shakespeare' purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. Bringing together archival research, rare photographs and illustrations, close readings of burlesque scripts, and an awareness of theatrical, literary and cultural contexts, Schoch changes the way we think about Shakespeare's theatrical legacy and nineteenth-century popular culture. His lively and wide-ranging book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare in performance, theatre history and Victorian studies.

The British Olympics

The British Olympics PDF Author: Martin Polley
Publisher: English Heritage
ISBN: 1848022263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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History records that the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago, died out around 393 AD, and were triumphantly reborn in 1896, in the Greek capital of Athens. Rather less well known is how, during the intervening centuries, an assortment of British writers, romantics, sportsmen and visionaries helped nurture that revival. Indeed, as sports historian Dr Martin Polley argues in this, the 12th book in the acclaimed Played in Britain series, our nation's fascination with all things Olympian has played a pivotal role in shaping the Games as we know them today, culminating in London becoming in 2012 the first city ever to stage a third modern Olympiad. Consider, for example, that the first published use of the word 'Olympian' in the English language dates from around 1590. Its author? William Shakespeare. And that the first games of the post-classical era to adopt the formal title 'Olympick' took place in the Cotswolds village of Chipping Campden in 1612. It was an English traveller, Richard Chandler, who rediscovered the lost site of Olympia in 1766, and a Shropshire doctor, William Penny Brookes, who, in 1850, founded the Much Wenlock Olympian Games, an annual community festival that inspired Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Games at an international level. Other Olympic festivals surfaced in London (to celebrate Queen Victoria's accession), in Liverpool, and in the north-east town of Morpeth, while the words 'Olympic' and 'Olympian' became steadily more ingrained in the popular imagination throughout the Victorian era. Britain's Olympic heritage gained added momentum in the 20th century. At White City in 1908, London built the world's first modern, purpose-built Olympic stadium, while in 1948 London stepped in to save the Games by offering Wembley Stadium. Also in the late 1940s, at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire, the modern Paralympics were born when sporting contests were organised for injured servicemen. Thus the 2012 Games represent the culmination of over four hundred years of British enthusiasm and ingenuity; an attachment that has left in its wake a trail of fascinating stories, characters, sites, buildings and artefacts. Leading the reader on a marathon journey, The British Olympics charts them all, making this a vital and entertaining source for anyone with an interest in the Games, in sport, and in the wider narrative of Britain's social and cultural heritage.